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Chicago man convicted of carjacking charges in federal court
The jury in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Tuesday convicted Kiar Evans, 24, on all four counts against him.
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John Dodge is CBS Chicago's Director of Digital Content. John has been a journalist for nearly four decades with experience in print, television and online platforms.
He started in Lafayette, Indiana, covering high school sports for the Journal and Courier newspaper in the mid-1980s.
He eventually became Executive News Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times in the 1990s, overseeing the editing and production of the daily news section for one of the largest newspapers in the country.
He later moved to CBS as Senior Editor and was named Executive Producer of cbschicago.com in 2007. In that role, he managed a staff of journalists on a website that combined the journalistic resources of CBS 2 News, Newsradio 780-AM, and WSCR-670, the sports radio station in Chicago.
In 2016, Dodge was promoted to Director of Digital Content for CBS Chicago and oversees all digital operations on the station's various digital platforms, including the website and the television station's social media channels.
Mr. Dodge graduated from Purdue University with a degree in communications. He lives in Northwest Indiana with his wife and two children.
The jury in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Tuesday convicted Kiar Evans, 24, on all four counts against him.
Gould made the move to the coaching ranks just more than two months after retiring from the National Football League after 18 years.
Georgie the grey seal is a new mom, giving birth to a 35-pound male pup last week at the Brookfield Zoo.
Chicago's Office Of Emergency Management said its operations center is receiving 911 calls and needs its operators available to handle legitimate calls.
The music festival organizers announced what it called "a Midwest exclusive performance" of the head-banging legends, who last toured in 2019.
On June 13, 2022, police found the children, ages 2, 3, and 5, dead inside Jason Karels' home. The Lake County coroner determined the three had drowned.
Body camera video showed officers did little to help her as she was pinned under the car for about eight minutes before paramedics arrived.
The four, who had been in the country since last summer, were rescued by police last week.
Just last week, a leaked internal report from Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's Office revealed system has "minimal return on investment" when it comes to holding shooters accountable.
Race director Carey Pinkowski told CBS 2 that the first thing Kiptum did after finishing was to look for the last man to set the world record in Chicago, Khalid Khannouchi.
A series of fires erupted at the BP refinery in Whiting on Thursday afternoon.
On Jan. 30-31, 2019, it was so cold that wind chills plunged to 50 below zero.
There was only one problem: Srdjan Illic stole the story -- all of it, from the data analysis to the interviews -- from CBS 2.
CBS News Chicago's weather forecast model — First Alert — helps digital users and traditional television viewers stay on top of Chicago's dynamic weather.
The fire also killed two girls, Davida Smith, 9, and Faith Smith, 17 months, and three boys, Demetis Smith, 10, Deontay Smith, 5, and D'Angelo Smith, 4.